In Those Days
In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History Book 1: Inuit Lives by Kenn Harper Iqaluit: Inhabit Media. $19.95 Reviewed by Russell A. Potter "In those days" is the English equaivalent of Taissumani, the name of Kenn Harper's long-running history column in the Nunatsiaq News; this volume collects from among them those dealing with significant Inuit figures. Many of them will be well-known to anyone with an interest in Arctic histories: "Joe" Ebierbing and "Hannah" Tookoolito, guides and translators for Charles Francis Hall; John Sakeouse, an interpreter and artist who accompanied John Ross on his 1818 voyage to northwest Greenland; and Hans Hendrik, who worked with Elisha Kent Kane, Isaac Israel Hayes, and was part of the party who survived on an ice-floe for six months after being separated from Hall's Polaris . But these are only three of the twenty-eight life-stories in these remarkable, turnable pages. Harper, who has lived and worked i